Monday, April 2, 2012

Each house has been shipped off and sold to his friends, but I just love looking at them all together. Forming an abstract village filled with the people that you love. Today, I am going to think of 20 people that I would include in my village.

We
celebrate light by adorning it and arranging it.........creating shades and bulbs and fixtures. It is a beautiful tribute to light itself. I thought of these two lights, for I feel these creations have attempted to make light more beautiful and have
succeeded.

Saturday, March 17, 2012

TSTO created this for Vuoden Huiput (VH) 2010. VH is Finland's yearly design awards for best in advertising and graphics.

Best if I let them describe the process of creating this: "Together with a programmer we created an application that transformed
any written word or sentence into a rebus, an allusional device that
uses pictures to represent words or parts of words. In English, a rebus
often uses homonyms, as seen in the classic IBM logo consisting of a
picture of an eye, a picture of a bee and the letter M. However,
homonyms are rare in Finnish language, therefore a rebus was constructed
from a list of some 5000 words with the most used syllables and matched
with an image search result from Google." Interesting, huh?

Series of notebooks produced in conjunction for the Documenta Exhibit in Germany this June.

Documenta is an international art exhibition that occurs every 5 years and spans 100 days and is filled with contemporary art of all mediums including sculpture, painting, photography and research. Webdesign for the event by Leftloft and is filled with lots of previews and hours of "looking". Notebooks available at Hatjecantz.

Thursday, March 15, 2012

There happens to be a new online interior decoration magazine from the Czech Republic called Bohemia Living. I got an email notification that the first issue is out, so I will be checking it out later today. Renata from Kokino Home Blog is one of the contributors and not only does she have a great blog, but she is such a nice woman as well. Good luck!

This is the only picture I have when we were in the Czech Republic. I guess since we were there for only 1 day, 1 picture will suffice. We were able to spend the night at someone's house (which is always nice.....how come Europe has such good manners?). In the morning, everyone left to walk into town and I opted to stay in and gets some peace and quiet. This is the pic I took.

I am in serious need of more book space. Last weekend the Milwaukee Art Museum (to my surprise!) was having their book sale from their private library and this book sale only happens every 2 or 3 years....so, I was in real luck for being there. The books were cheap and plentiful...so that meant buying all the books to your hearts content while trying to remember how you were going to carry these back to the car! Well 30 books later......and I am in need of some space. I just wanted to let USM how beautiful their bookcases are and that I would be great representation of their company! Smile.